More - Jim Steiner Quotes

Whether they would even attempt to keep him and what the other opportunities might be is difficult to say at this point. I'd never say never as it relates to 49ers, but it appears if you have a No.1 pick and $24 million guarantee going to a player, there would be an accelerated time frame to get him on the field.

Jim Steiner

 

Whether they would even attempt to keep him and what the other opportunities might be is difficult to say at this point, ... I'd never say never as it relates to 49ers, but it appears if you have a No.1 pick and $24 million guarantee going to a player, there would be an accelerated time frame to get him on the field.

Jim Steiner

 

I guess that could occur. But that's not likely.

Jim Steiner

 

I really don't know. It's just one of those strange occurrences.

Jim Steiner

 

I think 30 to 50 percent of teams won't participate in free agency, because they won't be able to. It's going to be tougher for the teams, tougher for the players, tougher for the agents.

Jim Steiner

 

Elvis had to take some risk in order to become a Raven. They needed his first-year cap number to be low, and the deal wasn't going to happen unless we agreed to that structure. That was not negotiable. He's certainly not worried about his playing ability and he's totally covered relative to injury. Baltimore is where he wanted to play.

Jim Steiner

 

Right now it's 50-50,

Jim Steiner

 

It'll probably go down to the last hour Thursday night.

Jim Steiner

 Night

We came pretty close, but we just couldn't get it closed. We just had to leave it alone for a while. We sort of got stuck, like you do when you can't get a deal. But we had a good productive meeting and we left on a good note.

Jim Steiner

 

If they were prepared to pay him $1 million to retire, you can't say it was a money thing, ... It was just a personnel decision to not bring him back. Case closed.

Jim Steiner

 Money